Motoring Blog

With the New Year soon upon us, it’s time for this blog to take a break until 7 January 2008. Until it returns, here’s hoping that you all have a great New Year and wishing you all a prosperous and action-packed 2008.

As we will be celebrating the New Year in a few days, now is the ideal time to look back at the year that’s been and to honor those automobiles that were considered the best cars of 2007.
Of course, the choice could be considered subjective, but Thane Peterson from BusinessWeek has taken a stab with [...]

It’s well known that diesel based engines are more efficient than those running on gasoline, and that in terms of price and pollution they are also better. But what if I told you that diesels are even better than hybrids? Yes, PopularMechanics reports that in the late 70s and early 80s diesel engines didn’t offer [...]

The Rolls-Royce Phantom 2007 is a 4-door luxury sedan equipped with a standard 6.75-liter, V12, 453-horsepower engine. At first, the Rolls-Royce Phantom was produced by the Rolls-Royce Motor Corp., but now belongs to BMW which has produced the luxury car since 2003.
As autoblog reports, production in 2007 was up 25 percent over 2006 figures to [...]

With a new aggressive bumper, the Mercedes-Benz SLK for 2009 looks more sportier then ever. It feels like Mercedes designers redesigned it with F1 and SLK in mind. Interior details have been updated as well. It’s now more optimized and more driver-focused. The instrument panel was redesigned and steering wheel has more multifunction buttons as [...]

Toyota has raised its projection for 2008 sales by 5 percent over this year, expecting to sell 9.85 million cars around the world on the production of 9.95 million cars. This year, GM is estimated to have sold 9.3 million cars, compared to Toyota’s estimated sales of 9.36 million.
Even with quite a few analysts and [...]

Automobile Magazine, America’s leading automotive lifestyle publication, today announced that the Audi R8 is its 2008 Automobile of the Year.
The R8 is Audi’s sports/GT that looks like a supercar, with a 420 horsepower V8. There’s a deep well of accelerative force to go along with a finely-tuned AWD chassis that doesn’t scramble the occupants. Design [...]

Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa has revealed that the F2008 will be completely redesigned and that the new design will be unveiled on January 6.
Toyota will also be unveiling its car on January 10, BMW Sauber on January 14, Honda on January 29, and Renault on January 31. The remaining teams, including Williams, Red Bull, [...]